Collected Poems (Paperback)

Sylvia Plath (author), Ted Hughes (volume editor)

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Paperback 352 Pages / Published: 19/08/2002

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This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive, The Colossus, as well as from posthumous collections Ariel, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees. The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed by notes and comments on individual poems. There is also an appendix containing fifty poems from Sylvia Plath's juvenilia. This collection was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. 'For me, the most important literary event of 1981 has been the publication, eighteen years after her death, of Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems, confirming her as one of the most powerful and lavishly gifted poets of our time.' A. Alvarez in the Observer

Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571118380
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 471 g
Dimensions: 216 x 139 x 28 mm
Edition: Main

Sylvia Plath

Described by Joyce Carol Oates as ‘one of the most celebrated and controversial of postwar poets writing in English’, American writer Sylvia Plath is one of the most widely recognised, culturally significant and influential voices of the twentieth century. Her works include the poetry collections The Colossus and Ariel and the novel The Bell Jar.

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